[27] Design for the chimneypiece for the saloon (now the library), 1768, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Harewood House, Yorkshire: designs for alterations to the church and house; for the interior decoration; and for a greenhouse and gateway for Edwin Lascelles, 1759-1782 (121)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the hall, music room, saloon, dining room, gallery, library, bed rooms, dressing rooms, great staircase and portico soffit, 1765-1778 (107)
      - Design for the chimneypiece for the saloon (now the library), 1768, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/192

Purpose

[27] Design for the chimneypiece for the saloon (now the library), 1768, as executed

Aspect

Elevation and profile of a tabernacle chimneypiece, with scrolled stiles, a frieze of urns and palmettes, with a tablet containing an urn on a pedestal, flanked by birds, and with ox skulls in the capitals. The aedicular overmantel contains a figurative roundel, and is supported by Spalatro order columns, and has a cameo in the tympanum of the pediment

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Saloon at Harewood House and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1768
1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (389 x 550)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, p. 140
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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